The kitchen was dead silent, with no swords clashing or roars, only the firewood door was ajar, and dark red blood mixed with dust and debris flowed out the door.
A series of bloody footprints stretched out in the corridor.
At the end of the blood mark, the short-haired Taoist priest approached the three remaining thieves with his sword.
A cannibal thief, with the big knife still in his hand, knelt on the ground with a plop.
"Please, spare me, spare me."
He kept kowtowing and shed tears.
However, what responded to him was a swift and decisive sword tip.
The bright sword light suddenly disappeared, and bright blood flowers bloomed in the throat.
The Taoist priest calmly stepped over the fallen body.
"ah!"
Another cannibal suddenly shouted and rushed forward with his spear drawn. He came forward fiercely and seemed to be moving forward inexorably, but tears flowed from his eyes and flowed along the wrinkles on his face that were distorted by fear.
The Taoist priest just turned sideways slightly and let the gun head pass, and at the same time clamped the gun body with his arm. The thief also had a saber at his waist, but he lost his mind due to fear and just cried and grabbed the spear and sent it forward.
Li Changan raised his sword and slashed the gun body into two pieces.
The thief couldn't hold back his strength and fell towards Li Changan. The Taoist priest used the broken spear in his hand to meet him, and the sharp stubble pierced his abdomen, pushing out a piece of the leather armor on his back.
Li Changan pushed him to the railing of the corridor. The railing had been eaten away by time and beetles, and it was immediately broken and collapsed under the pressure. Then the thief fell into the dust outside the corridor along with the broken wood.
There's only one left.
Li Changan turned around and looked at the pale man with trembling lips opposite him.
"Sun Zhong."
Li Changan took a step forward, and Sun Zhong shivered and took a few steps back. At this time, he didn't notice that he had retreated to the door at the end of the corridor. He tripped on the threshold and staggered into the room.
, he couldn't even hold the hunting knife firmly in his hand and rolled to the side.
He wanted to pick up the hunting knife, but there was darkness before his eyes. He raised his head and saw the Taoist priest standing at the door holding the long sword that was still bleeding.
The evening sunlight poured into the room from behind him, raising a bloody outline. In this backlight, Sun Zhong couldn't see clearly the Taoist priest's face. He could only see two lowering eyes on the outline of his face, as cold as sword blades.
He shuddered violently, not even caring about the only weapon on the ground, and rolled and crawled away.
Li Changan did not catch up, but just stood blankly at the door, looking steadily into the room.
This room is probably the slaughterhouse for these thieves.
There are many iron hooks hanging on the beams, and some human torsos and limbs are hung on the iron hooks, shaking slightly in the air, and some are even dripping with blood. And beside the wall, there is a platform paved with stones and door panels.
There was a corpse on the table that had been stripped open from the chest to the abdomen, and some parts of the corpse were missing. Next to the corpse, there was a large wooden basin filled with intestines, heart, liver,
Spleen, lungs, kidneys...
After a long time, Li Changan breathed a sigh of relief, turned to look at Sun Zhong, and said word by word:
"You deserve to die, and your sin is unforgivable!"
After that, he kicked the hunting knife on the ground and returned it to Sun Zhong.
Sun Zhong did not take advantage of the situation to pick up this self-defense weapon, which was better than nothing, but suddenly laughed.
"Ha? Haha? Hahahahahaha..."
This smile was twisted and weird, as if fear, surprise, anger... many emotions were mixed together. In the dim light, it was unclear how many emotions were contained in his smile, but his voice was shrill and hysterical.
"So you came to kill us because we eat people?"
His voice suddenly rose and his speaking speed became even faster.
"The sin is unforgivable? What kind of crime is eating a human being? What kind of sin is eating such a small number of people?"
"Back then, 'Renbutuzi' led his brothers to besiege Caizhou for more than half a year. The food in and outside the city was all gone. After the food was gone, the war had to continue. What do you think?"
Sun Zhong opened his mouth, revealing his sparse and pale teeth.
"We who besiege the city will eat the people outside the city; the officers and soldiers who defend the city will eat the people in the city. After this battle, okay, we will eat all the people in Caizhou to extinction."
He chuckled.
"Taoist, if you want to kill cannibals, go ahead and kill them. There are over a hundred thousand of them in the city and outside the city. If you have the ability, catch them one by one and kill them all!"
While Sun Zhong was talking, he saw a slight change in Li Changan's expression, and he felt happy, thinking that he had a chance of life, and he still had to shake his tongue.
"In these troubled times, the weak will be eaten by the strong..."
Suddenly.
The sword light swirled and disappeared, and Sun Zhong's head rose into the sky and landed in the wooden basin.
“Lots of nonsense!”
Li Changan lifted up the corner of his robe and wiped the blood on his sword.
"I am a Taoist priest, not a priest. How can I hear so many last words from you?"
He sheathed his sword, glanced at the broken corpses in the room, and sighed.
That's right, the Taoist priest is indeed a Taoist priest with no great ability. In this troubled world where demons and monsters are rampant, he can't control much. He just does the good things in front of him and punishes the evil in the moment.
He shook his head and was about to untie the broken corpses from the iron hooks and bury the victims who were no longer distinguishable from me. Suddenly his expression changed and he seemed to hear a faint voice in his ears.
"Save...save..."
Are there any living people?!
Li Changan suddenly turned his head and rushed towards the source of the sound, but it was a man hanging upside down on an iron hook.
He was covered in cuts and bruises, and it looked like the wounds had been cut alive with a knife. One of his arms had been cut off by the roots. Sharp hooks penetrated the flesh and hung him upside down. A wooden basin was placed underneath, and most of the blood in the basin had been collected.
.
This man is actually still alive?!
Li Changan carefully untied it and was about to ask about the injury.
The man suddenly broke away from Li Changan, jumped up and rushed towards the wall.
"you……"
While the Taoist priest was wondering, he had already pushed aside the debris on the wall, revealing a small door. He bent down and hurriedly got in.
This house actually has partitions?
Li Changan hurriedly followed. After entering the door, he raised his head and looked around. The compartment was not big, but there were many women and children tied up inside. The man was mumbling incoherently, and kept rummaging through the crowd. Blood dripped from him.
It gushed out from the wounds on his body, and as long as he stopped for a moment, a pool of blood would accumulate.
Li Changan opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't stop him and just went to untie the others.
However, his heart became colder and colder.
All these women and children are dead!
……………………
"No, no, not here, not here..."
The man fell to his knees weakly and muttered to himself.
His eyes wandered around the room without focus, looking miserable and helpless. Suddenly, they fixed on Li Changan beside him. A light called hope suddenly burst out in his eyes.
"Taoist priest, Taoist priest!"
He did not stand up, perhaps because he no longer had the strength to stand up. He moved towards Li Changan on his knees, dragging two bloody tracks on the ground.
"Have you seen my baby? He is a little taller and has a round face."
The man was writing in a panic. He suddenly remembered something and quickly pointed to his forehead.
"Yes! There is another mole here."
Forehead? Mole?
Li Changan stretched out his hand to help the man and stopped in mid-air.
The man's face first showed anticipation, then became astonishment, and finally became tragedy.
He shook his body a few times and held his hands on the ground without falling. After a while, he slowly spoke again:
"Taoist Master Mercy, can you do me a favor?"
Li Changan quickly replied: "Please tell me."
"The villain's surname is Mao and his name is Fengnian. He is from Xiahe Village at the foot of the mountain. Due to the recent military disaster, in order to preserve the incense of my family, he took his wife and took refuge in the mountains. Who knew..."
Mao Fengnian paused here. There was no sadness on his face, just numbness.
"...Excuse me, Taoist Priest, please spare me a message and just say..."